#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; ## November 15, 2006 ## Daniel Vredenburg (Vredfreak) ## This is a program that checks for package updates for Arch Linux users. open (MYINPUTFILE, "/home/ju143558/.scripts/arch-updates/updates.log") or die "No such file or directory: $!"; my $i = 0; while() { if (/^(.*)\/(.*)(\..*\..*\.)/) { #print " \n"; $i++; } } if ($i == 0) { print "up to date"; } else { print "available ($i)"; } close(MYINPUTFILE);